freak out
Noun
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Noun
freak out (plural freak outs)
- (slang, 1960s counterculture) A positive experience with LSD or other psychedelic drug; (antonym) bummer, bum trip.
freak out
- (slang, intransitive) To react (or cause to react) with extreme anger or fear to something to the extent that one loses one's composure or behaves irrationally; originally, 1960s countercultural term meaning to have a positive reaction or experience from the recreational, therapeutic or edificational use of a psychotropic – usually hallucinogenic or psychedelic – drug
- 1991, Thelma and Louise (movie)
- Jimmy'll come in off the road, you won't be there, he'll freak out and call you a hundred thousand times...
- 1991, Thelma and Louise (movie)
- (slang, transitive) To scare someone.
- (react with extreme anger or fear) set one's hair on fire
- (drugs) bum out
- French: s'affoler, disjoncter (colloquial), flipper (colloquial), paniquer
- German: ausflippen, durchdrehen
- Italian: dare di matto, arrabbiarsi, flippare
- Portuguese: surtar
- Russian: выходи́ть из себя́
- Spanish: rayar, trastornarse
- French: faire flipper (colloquial), faire paniquer
- Russian: пуга́ть
- Spanish: asustar
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